This week we spoke to Oliver Heald, the MP for North East Hertfordshire.
What book’s on your bedside table at the moment?
To a Mountain in Tibet by Colin Thubron
What book would you read to your children?
Corduroy by Don Freeman
What literary character would you most like to be?
Richard Hannay in The 39 Steps by John Buchan
What book do you think best sums up ‘now’?
The Believers by Zoe Heller
What was the last novel you read?
The Glass Palace by Amitav Ghosh
What book would you most recommend?
Sir Bobby Charlton’s autobiography, My
England Years
Given enough time, which book would you like to study deeply?
Peacemakers by Margaret MacMillan
Which books do you plan to read next?
All the Colours of Darkness by Peter Robinson
Snowdrops by A D Miller
If the British Library was on fire and you could only save three books, which ones would you take?
Lindisfarne Gospels
Shakespeare’s First Folios
Chaucer Gentilesse and other writings
Fleur Macdonald is editor of The
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